Hip Hop EQ Guidelines
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Hiphop Bass
Low - 100Hz
H-Mid - 2.5KHzHiphop Bass Drum
Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 500HzHiphop Cymbals
Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 400HzH-Mid - 1KhzHigh - 14KHzHiphop Hi-hat
Low - 90Hz
L-Mid - 400HzH-Mid - 3KHzHigh - 8KHzHiphop Kick
Low - 80Hz
L-Mid - 300HzH-Mid - 1.5KHzHigh - 6KHzHiphop Overheads
H-Mid - 9Khz
Hiphop Percussion
Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 400HzH-Mid - 3KHzHigh - 17KHzHiphop Piano
Low - 100Hz
H-Mid - 9KhzHiphop Snare
Low - 150Hz
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Hiphop Strings
Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 750HzHiphop Synth
Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 400HzHiphop Toms
Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 500HzH-Mid - 9KHzHiphop Vocals
Low - 200Hz
L-Mid - 3KHzH-Mid - 8KHzNOTE:
These "sweet spot" ranges are approximate places to cut or boost to get a better sound or to make an instrument sound better. Nothing is fixed in hip hop sound engineering so experiment to your own liking, usually the low sweet spots are reference points to cut-off or filtered off and reduce these unwanted low frequencies.
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